What used to be a rather dark bedroom with pretty intense wallpaper and green shag carpet has now, through the combined efforts of my in-laws, our painter/handyman friend, and some work of our own, become the bedroom for our baby boy.

The wallpaper steamed down in one afternoon, but choosing the paint and putting together the furnishings took longer — this was a labor of love from October 2011 until just before he was born in late February 2012.

How nice to find hardwood floors under that carpeting, as we’d hoped!

So much labor put in for our little guy by his grandparents. We are grateful for their hard work!

And we are SO grateful to have that wallpaper gone! I kept saying to everyone who would listen “Even if we change our mind about the wall color, we will NEVER have to deal with this wallpaper again!”

sanding and priming the wall patches where we took out the huge exhaust pipe from the old range hood — it was a hole in the wall the size of a dinner plate!!

priming and painting more of the kitchen

hauling the last of the moving boxes and bags upstairs to their correct rooms

setting up the space heater in the guest room. It’s dented (boo UPS) so we’re making sure it works and trying to decide whether to keep it

Learned again how much I absolutely HATE touching sandpaper with my bare hands. Blehhh!!! It makes my back twitch just thinking about it. And now I have so much plaster dust up my nose. Seriously. But the kitchen is taking shape! A little more paint (white for the backsplash), some new switch plates, and I think we’re done!

Today was also my mother’s birthday, and it was really nice to have her visit and show her the place. 🙂